From the archives: A match report from a game that was later associated with a gold heist which took place in Turin at the same time…
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[Video] It’s All For Charidee
Songs for charidee… oh and for Euro 2012…
A Tale Of Two Keepers
The 1970′s. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of Clemence, it was the age of Shilton…
What Do You Want To Go And Sing For, Tel ?
It’s a question nobody asks and nobody cares for an answer…
Football and Peelie
Today is October 25th. Today we are #keepingitpeel…
FootieAndMusic – England Podcast
A special edition of the podcast, featuring everything England.
The Eurovision Football Song Contest
A terrible contest with terrible music…no not a World Cup, worse than that – the Eurovision Football song contest…
Sir Bobby’s Desert Island Discs
BBC Radio 4 have made available some of their archived Desert Island Discs shows. Here for you now is the one featuring Sir Bobby Robson
Jerusalem ’96
A quick trip back in time to Euro ’96 and a look at England’s progress through the group stages…
Going All The Way ?
A reminder of something from 1988 that nearly brought an end to all football and music…
After The Lung Collapsed
A look at what the band members did next…
Footieleaks : The World Cup Files
Fatt Bladder did his best to stop these files from being leaked (by trying to sit on me) but the truth will out !
Footieleaks : The England Files
Since everybody else is jumping on the spoof Wikileaks bandwagon… We’ve “discovered” some previously unpublished football and music items which once you’ve read them might start a riot…
The Faux Internationals
I’ve only just noticed that there’s some international friendlies being played midweek. As usual they are a pointless waste of time that will mean nothing to anybody. Because the are not proper competitive qualifiers I’m calling them faux friendlies…
“Martin To Ossie And Bang”
Those are some lyrics to a song about the England team from 1970, do they ring a bell ? Chris needs your help. He’s got a song stuck in his head and it’s driving him mad. He’s emailed me and I’ve drawn a blank. He’s been on every forum to ask and no joy. Here’s [...]
It’s England’s Irony
There’s a New Hope ! It’s a New Era !
Actually no it isn’t. Despite everything that happened in South Africa it’s the same as usual for the England team…
I Was Saying Boo-Urns…
The first chance for the fans… which is a misnomer because of what they’ll be doing… to boo the England team in a few hours. Many of the hacks in their published articles asking what’s the point of booing, the players knew that their performance in South Africa was dismal…
The Footballers In Video Challenge
This started out as challenge via Twitter – to find a music video where a football player makes an appearance…
Now We Know How It Feels
Unlike the one that was eventually given 44 years ago, this time there wasn’t a doubt. For a double irony I was hoping that England got a second and it would have finished 4-2. Some of the words used by the red tops (after they found a dictionary) to describe their performance were: Abject, dismal, [...]
Don’t Mention A Draw !
What am I going to do now…? I used up all the footballing clichés the other day with the balls to the wall post. I decided to bang them all in there because like many of you I was half expecting England to once again come out and shoot themselves in the foot. But a [...]



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